The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-29
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j; H. Engel, of sunb6fs died Saturday from
the effects Of a dog bite.
The Abraham Cox Stove Works viii be put
in operation at Landsdale shortly.
"A thick vein Of iron ore has been discovered
in Westmoreland county near Greensburg.
Mrs. John Berger was burned to death at
Locust Gap, Northumberland county, Saturday
Several cars were wrecked on the reading
Railroad, near Locust Gap, Saturday BY broken
axle.
The Cumberland county Temperance League
secured a grand victory in the courts this
week.
One huhdred o. the business men OF Chester
have organized themselves into Board of
Trade.
The employees of the w. & N. r. r. Co.,
have had their wages advanced ten to fifteen
cents per day.
The Department Of Pennsylvania, Grand
Army of the Republic, contains 5iS Posts and
4O,50O comrades.
A large mahufactory at Bloomsbury was
burned to the ground Tuesday. Loss sie, ,oOO!
insurance, $1,000.
Minnie Burbaker and John Albright of the
Lebanon Valley College, clopcd, and were mar
ricd in Camden, n. j., recently,
Richard Helm, of Downlngton, aged seven
teen years, met with an accident while coasting
rectcnly; which resulted in death.
joseph Keese, wNh is wanted at Chambers
burg for murder, was captured at Fredericks-
burg, Lebanon county, Wednesday.
-SloO,OOO has bccn subscribed by wealthy resi-
dents of Pittsburg, for the purpose oferecting an
institution for the care of the blind.
"A vein df Steel ore, thirty feet in thickness
and about five hundred feet in length is said to
exist somewhere in the Lehgh mountains,
"A well-drcssed stranger, aged about thirty
years, died suddenly in the depot at Harrisburg
Tuesday. A check for $500 was found upon his
person.
John NJ. Laird, of Grecnshurg, aged eighty
seven years died Tues1ay after short illness.
Deceased had been in the newspaper business
for many years.
John Rowman. OF Cumberland county, Sat
urday received word that his 'soh's body was
burned to a crisp in the recent railroad disaster
at Tiffn. Ohio. He has been offered $1,000 to
settle the case
-Bcrns county has named new township
Tllden Berks countians believe in honoring
otir noble dead, as they now have Washington,
Jefferson and Tilden townships concluding with
Il Garfield post Office Eerks countians are gen.
erous almost to extreme
Since the Reading Rolling Mill at Reading
has passed out of the hands Of the coal and iron
colnpahy and lnder the ,cottrol OF the ftilroad
company 1t Is riimored that work viii be resumed
either by the railroad company or under lease by
the Phoenix Bridge Company, of Phoenix
Vile.
The Standard Iron Works at NorrIstown
have beeh leased TO Alan Wood of CQnshohoeken,
for ten years. The works consist Of eleven pud-
ding fuFnaces and heating department. and
have been idle for 1--WE years. Mr.. Wood will
put them in order and operate them without
delay. u
-Horatis G. Fisher, of Huntington: has
bought III acres OF coal land in Young township,
Huntingdon county, which he will develop for
shipment over his new railtoah. Thia line will
be II miles long, a continuation of the Bells Gap
Road, and will be built this year. General
FISHER owns between 1900 and 5000 acres of coal
land.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company has notified the tenants OF forty houses
owned by it in North Reading to quit the prem
ises. The dwellings are located near the COM
pany's rolling mill, and were occupied by former
employees, but the mill has been idle several
years, and In some cases no rent has been paid
for months.
-Ptt;sburg oil circles are excited over re-
ported strike Of the ulh at Patterson Station, on
the Pittsburg, CHARTERS and Youghiogheny Road,
about sixteen miles from the city, and say that
II true 1t may open up new oil field. The well
is said TO have flowed constantly after tho drill
touched the sand and that the drlers were
ordered to insert plugs until tankage can be
erected.
a company, to be called the Pine Greek Nayi-
CATION Company, has been organized to build
dams on Pine creek and make that stream
navIgable some fifteen or sixteen miles from its
mouth on the Allegheny river, few miles above
Pttsburg. The stock will be $4,000, in SiOO
shares with power to increase II TO S3O0OOh, and
the plan is to turn the creek into Rcanal 100 feet
wide and feet deep, with seven laSNs of six feet
lift each, sixty feet wide between the aputments
and with gates so coustruetei as TO let down az
high water.